Is JSLint available for offline use?

Question

I\'d like to use JSLint, but I am wary of tools that have access to my unfiltered source code. Is there an offline version or is there another similar tool that does \"

Answer 1

Instead of downloading with a browser, you can also directly download the sources. This has the advantage that you can update them with the versioning system, and read the commented source code.

git clone https://github.com/douglascrockford/JSLint.git

This gives you HTML and JS source files, but you cannot use them as they are. Follow the build process in README. In a nutshell, you need to git clone two other JS projects of Douglas Crockford, then concatenate (and minimise) some JS files from all three git repositories into web_jslint.js.

I did it like this, with the YUI Compressor:

cat ../ADsafe/adsafe.js ../JSON-js/json2.js intercept.js jslint.js > /tmp/web_jslint.uncomp.js
java -jar ../../yuicompressor-2.4.7.jar /tmp/web_jslint.uncomp.js > web_jslint.js

Then open jslint.html with your browser.